Talking-machine.



No. 759,142. PATENTED MAY 3, 1904. L. I. VALIQUET. TALKING MACHINE.

APILIOATION FILED OCT. 1. 1903.

no MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented May 3, 1904.

PATENT OE IcE.

LOUIS P. VALIQUET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO VIOTlTOR TALKING MACHINE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TALKING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,142, dated May 3,1904.

Application filed October 1, 1903.

To all IIf/l UI'II/ it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS P. VALI UET, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough of Bronx, city, county,

5 and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Talking-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

M y invention relates generally to talkingl machines; and more specifically it consists of improved means for supporting the horn employed in talking-machines and for connecting it with the sound-box.

.ln the manufacture and handling of talkingmachines in large quantities it becomes important to make the main body of the horn employed therewitlrseparate from the elbow which connects it with the sound box for convenience and economy of space in packin 20 At the same time a separate orseparable elbow is apt to become lost in shipping and handling, and elaborate fastening means are often necessary to hold all these separable parts together when assembled. It has also become desirable to have a horn and horn-supporting mechanism which can be used indiflerently with any one of the several makes of sound-box now on the market. I have invented a construction of apparatus which has a separable 3 elbow without increasing the number of parts when the machine is taken down and which can also be used with the different standard sound-boxes.

The preferred form of apparatus is shown in the accomi ianying sheet of drawings, in whieh- Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a back view of the elbow and portion of the supporting-arm. Fig. 3 is a plan View 4 of the same, showing the sound-box in position and a portion of the horn. Fig. 4 shows a modified form of sound-box-engaging flange.

Throughout the drawings like reference figures indicate like parts.

1 represents one end of the ordinary swinging supporting-arm, to which the tubular elbow 2 is fastened by means of the socket and pin 2 or by any other convenient means.

3 is the horn, made to slide into the end of Serial No. 175,300. (No model.)

the elbow adjacent to the supporting-arm, and 4 is the ordinary form of sound-box, having a short tubular extension 4, adapted to enter the free end of the elbow 2.

5 is a flange on that end of the elbow 2 having one or more perforations 6 6 6". &c., and 7 is the usual pin on the back of the sound-box 4, engaging one of said perforations in the flange. The other end of the elbow is split, as shown at 8, and the opposing parts of the elbow so severed are provided with lugs 9 and 9, which are properly perforated to permit the thumb-screw 10 to engage them and draw them together.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the main portion of the flange 5 is cut down to a diameter just suliicientto allow it to serve as a guide to the tubular extension 4 of the soundbox when the same is being inserted in the elbow and leaving the irregular-shaped projection 11 to engage with the pin 7 on the sound-box and serve as a stop therefor.

The method of operation of my invention is as follows: The small end of the horn 3 is inserted in the elbow 2 and clamped there by means of the th Limb-screw 10, and the soundbox 4 is placed in position by inserting the tubular extension 4 in the flanged end of the elbow and the pin 7 in that one of the holes 6 6, &c., with which it is adapted to engage, or the sound-box is turned until said pin 7 strikes the projection 11. if the modification shown in Fig. 4 be employed. In taking down the machine the above-described operations are reversed.

The advantages of the invention comprise the reduction of the number of parts, the elbow, supporting-arm, and fastening means being all made in one integral structure, the economy of space in packing the separated parts, it being possible to nest a large number of horns in a small space, and the facility with which various standard makes of sound-box may be employed with the same horn and supporting and connecting means.

It is evident of course that various changes could be made in the details of construction above described without departing from the spirit and scope oi my invention. Other methods of attaching the elbow to the supporting-arm might be employed and other fastening means for holding the horn in position. Some of the features described might be dispensed with without destroying the utility of the remaining improvements. All such modifications 1 should consider still within the boundaries of my invention.

Having therefore described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is

1. In a talking-machine, the combination of a tubular elbow, a supporting-arm fastened thereto, and a flange on the free end of the elbow for engagement with the sound-box.

2. In a talking-machine, the combination of a tubular elbow, a supporting-arm fastened thereto, and a flange on the free end of the elbow for engagement with the soundboX, said flange being provided with an opening for the purpose described. V i

3. In a talking-machine, the combination of a tubular elbow, a supporting-arm fastened thereto, and a flange on the free end ot' the elbow for engagement with the sound-box, said flange being provided with a series of openings for the purpose described.

4. In a talking-machine the combination of a tubular elbow provided at one end with a flange having a perforation therein, and a sound-box having a tubular extension adapted to enter the elbow and a pin adapted to enter the perforation in the flange.

5. In a talking-machine, the combinationof the supporting-arm, and a tubular elbow connected at one end to said arm, and provided at the other end with a flange having a perforation therein for the purpose described.

6. In a talking-machine, the combination of the supportingarm, and a tubular elbow connected at one end to said arm, and provided at the other end with a flange having a perforation therein for the purpose described, the end of the elbow adjacent to the supporting-arm being provided with clamping means for attachment to a horn.

7. In a talking-machine, the combination of the supporting-arm, and a tubular elbow connected at one end to said arm, and provided at the other end with a flange having a perforation therein for the purpose described, the end of the elbow adjacent to the supporting-arm being split and provided with screw mechanism for forcing the split portions together.

- 8. In a talking-machine, the combination of the supporting-arm, and a tubular elbow connected at one end to said arm and provided at the other end with a sound-box-engaging flange.

Signed at New York, N. Y., this 21st day of September, 1903.

LOUIS P. VALIQUET.

Vitnesses: V

J. E. PEARSON, M. Gr. CRAWFORD. 

